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Current Law, Con'd 



Murkowskl. Con'd 



Wirth. Con'd 



50-year Contracts: Up lo 



3(Xi nuiibf/\T under 

 contract to Alaska Pulp 

 Company lAPC) and 

 Ketchikan Pulp Company 

 IKrCi Tliese cor.iraci^ were 

 entered into before 

 Statehood by the Federal 

 Government In order to 

 induce investment in the two 

 mills within the remote 

 territonal northern forest. 

 The APC contract expires 

 June 30. 2011. KPC 

 contract expires June 30. 

 20O4 



Tongass Land Management 

 Plan Revision: Currently 

 underway pursuant lo forest 

 planning laws The planning 

 team has put In two years of 

 elTort lo date, at a cost of 

 $3 7 million Draft TLMP is 

 due December 1 989 Public 

 hearings in nearly all BE 

 Alaska communities have 

 been completed With new 

 computer technolog\' and 

 nearly 100°/b invenlon,- of 

 forest resources to work 

 with, new plan will be most 

 sophisticated ever produced 

 by the Forest Semce. 



50-year Contracts: APC and 



KPC contracts are not 

 addressed These contracts 

 benefit the region because 

 they proWde limber for two 

 pulp nulls which are the only 

 two \'ear-round 

 manufacturing plants in the 

 Stale of Alaska. The year- 

 round employment prosidcd 

 by the timber IndusUy Is 

 extremeh- important lo the 

 economy of this region where 

 all other industries are 

 seasonal. 



50-year Contracts: APC 



and KPC limber contracts 

 terminated within 90 days of 

 enactment of law . Loss of 

 timber supply could result in 

 closure of pulp nulls a:.d 

 potential liability lo the 

 Federal Government running 

 into hundreds of millions of 

 dollars. 



TLMP Revision; TLMP 

 process Is permitted to 

 proceed on schedule Sen 

 Murkowskl belle%'es that 

 limber, wildlife and recreation 

 areas should be delerrruned 

 on basis of scientific 

 information and local public 

 opiruon 



TLMP Revision: Current 

 revision superseded by new 

 TLMP revision which must 

 'significantly increase 



protection of fish, wUdlife. 

 watershed, recreation, 

 cultural, biological diversity, 

 and old growth ecosystem 

 resources and subsistence 

 values" from the protection 

 contained in .xisting plan. 

 Effect IS lo d-crease timber 

 base by "significant" amount. 

 This Is a major departure 

 from the multiple use 

 mandate contained In the 

 National Forest Management 

 Act requiring all resource 

 values to be balanced evenly 

 by the Forest Service 

 resource professionals. 



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Wilderness: 5 4 million 

 acres of Congresslonally 

 designated wilderness 

 prohibits harvesiing of one- 

 third of the fores; s 

 commercial timber, and 

 prohibits road access 

 recreation. An additional 3.4 

 million acres are managed 

 as roadless wilderness 

 Over one-half of the entire 

 forest Is managed as 

 wilderness. The dense 

 forests of SE Alaska are 

 riaccessible to humans 

 .vithout some road access. 

 Dnly one-third of the 5 4 

 million acres of han-estable 

 Umber will ever be available 

 for limber development 



Wilderness: 5.4 million acres 

 of wilderness remain In forest. 

 This area contains one-third ! 

 of the harveslable limber in 

 the forest. Since the Forest 

 Serv-ice manages an additional 

 3.4 million acres as 

 wilderness and must protect 

 the Integrity of the entire 

 forest when harvesting timber. 

 Sen. Murkowskl bebeves that 

 8 8 million acres — over half 

 of the forest — is a large 

 enough area to have oCf-limits 

 to commodity uses and road 

 access recreation. 



Wilderness: Existing 5.4 

 million acres, plus new 

 statutory moratorium on 

 timber harvest on 1,789,285 

 acres until completion of 

 new TLMP revision 

 (expected to lake approx. 2 

 yrs. after enactment of law). 

 Requires Forest Service to 

 manage these areas for non- 

 timber uses only after plan 

 Is implemented. Areas 

 include approximately 

 650,000 acres of commercial 

 forest land. Cut effect Is to 

 reduce yield of forest by 115 

 mmbf/>T. With these 

 additional areas managed as 

 wilderness, the total area in 

 the forest dedicated to 

 roadless wilderness will 

 equal 10.6 million acres — 

 63% of the forest This 

 leaves only 37^>o of the forest 

 available for multiple use 

 management, including 

 developed recreation, road 

 access hunting and timber 

 development. 



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